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Suicides and CV Death After Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer

2010 Feb 3, As Reported by the LA Times

A diagnosis of prostate cancer can be so devastating that some men commit suicide, but Harvard researchers have found that the more widespread use of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing in recent years...

Leukemia 10-Year Outcomes With BM vs PBSC Transplants

2010 Feb 1, As Reported by HealthDay News

Patients with leukemia appear to have nearly equivalent long-term survival whether they undergo peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) transplantation or bone marrow transplantation (BMT). Researchers in Europe...

Prostate Cancer Mortality Risk Linked to Genetic Markers

2010 Jan 27, As Reported by Reuters

Genetic testing is helping to determine which patients with prostate cancer may benefit from aggressive therapy. In particular, the presence of 3 specific genetic abnormalities has been found to indicate...

Pazopanib Slows Progression of Kidney Cancer

2010 Jan 26, As Reported by HealthDay News

A new drug has been found to slow the progression of advanced kidney cancer. The drug, pazopanib, was tested in a phase III study among 435 patients. Of these patients, 233 had not been previously treated...

Rectal Tumors Downstaged With Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy

2010 Jan 26, As Reported by HealthDay News

An intensive treatment regimen involving capecitabine appears to be beneficial for patients with advanced rectal cancer. In a phase II study conducted in England, 105 patients with poor-risk disease underwent...

Radiation Doses Lower With Digital Mammography

2010 Jan 21, As Reported by Reuters

Radiation doses are up to 22% lower with digital mammography than with conventional film imaging, say investigators at the University of Colorado−Denver, who participated in the Digital Mammography Imaging...

Ultrasound Plus Biomarker Combo Aids Detection of Ovarian Cancer

2010 Jan 21, As Reported by HealthDay News

The combination of contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging plus proteomic analysis of blood samples improves the ability to detect ovarian cancer at an early stage. Ultrasound, by itself, is not sufficiently...

HPV Test, Not Pap Smear, Advised for Older Women

2010 Jan 19, As Reported by HealthDay News

Italian researchers have found that DNA testing for the human papilloma virus (HPV) prevents more cases of cervical cancer than does the traditional Pap test, and they therefore recommend that the HPV...

Early Physical Therapy After Breast Surgery Limits Lymphedema

2010 Jan 13, As Reported by HealthDay News

Early physical therapy after surgery for breast cancer can help prevent lymphedema affecting the arm. Researchers in Spain found that a 3-week program of physical therapy, which included scar tissue massage...

Green Tea Lowers Lung Cancer Risk in Smokers

2010 Jan 13, As Reported by Bloomberg.com

Smokers who drink green tea may ward off lung cancer, a study from Taiwan suggests. Among both smokers and nonsmokers, people who did not drink green tea had a 5-fold higher risk of lung cancer than did...